The epic fifth novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series by the bestselling author of. Justin Salinger stars as Shardlake, with Bryan Dick as Barak, in this heart-stopping penultimate instalment of the 'Shardlake' series. Image for Heartstone: (Matthew Shardlake series 5). Events come to their dramatic climax on board the King's most famous warship- the Mary Rose. As he and his assistant Jack Barak pursue their investigations, they uncover secrets, lies and sinister crimes, and are reunited with both an old friend and an old enemy. She refuses to speak about the traumatic events that led to her incarceration almost twenty years ago, and Shardlake believes her family may hold the answers. James picked as one of her five favorite mysteries in The Wall Street Journal Dark Fire, winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award Sovereign and Revelation, a USA Today Best Book of the Year for 2009, are all available from Penguin. Shardlake also has another, more personal mission - to discover the truth about Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman he has befriended in Bedlam. Heartstone is his fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery. Queen Catherine Parr has asked him to take on a case involving the 'monstrous wrongs' allegedly committed by cloth merchant Sir Nicholas Hobbey against his young ward, Hugh Curteys. Matthew Shardlake A hunchbacked lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform who works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire, then Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation and finally Queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone.

Though no soldier, Matthew Shardlake also finds himself dispatched there. Facing imminent invasion by the French fleet, King Henry VIII has mustered a huge army at Portsmouth. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series, featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake Summer, 1545, and England is preparing for war.

An enthralling BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of the fifth novel in C. C J Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel forms the basis of this thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization.

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